Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday hailed the information that Hunter Biden will sit for a closed-door deposition later this month together with his committee and the Home Judiciary Committee.
“I feel on the finish of the day, it is a big victory for the Home Oversight Committee,” Comer stated on Fox Information. “That is precisely what we needed[.]”
Biden’s late February deposition follows his avoidance of an earlier December deposition that resulted in lawmakers threatening him with contempt of Congress.
“Hunter Biden will seem earlier than our committees for a deposition on February 28, 2024. His deposition will come after a number of interviews with Biden members of the family and associates. We look ahead to Hunter Biden’s testimony,” Comer and Home Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote in a press release.
Final week, Biden made an sudden look at a Home Oversight and Accountability Committee markup, earlier than the committee superior a decision to carry him in contempt of Congress for what they claimed was his defiance of a December subpoena.
On the listening to, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) expressed her heavy displeasure with the president’s son’s go to, asking “who bribed Hunter Biden to be right here.”
“You’re the epitome of white privilege. Coming in to the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You don’t have any balls to come back up right here,” Mace stated.
“I feel that Hunter Biden ought to be arrested proper right here, proper now, and go straight to jail,” she added.
Each Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) known as out Mace after her “white privilege” remark.
“I simply need to run it again by means of to the very starting, as a result of that is one thing that I simply can’t recover from. I simply can recover from the gentlelady from South Carolina speaking about white privilege,” Crockett stated later within the listening to. “It was a spit within the face, at the very least of mine as a Black lady, so that you can discuss what white privilege seems like, particularly from that facet of the aisle.”
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